Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
authorBruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:39:17 +0000 (05:39 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:39:17 +0000 (05:39 +0000)
or queries over the network.

doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml

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@@ -653,6 +653,9 @@ local   db1,db2,@demodbs  all                         md5
     <ulink url="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/">MIT Kerberos page</ulink>
     can be good starting points for exploration.
     Several sources for <productname>Kerberos</> distributions exist.
+    <productname>Kerberos</productname> provides secure authentication but
+    does not encrypt queries or data passed over the network;  for that
+    use <acronym>SSL</acronym>.
    </para>
 
    <para>